Richardson, Thomas V^[1]

1608 - 1651  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Richardson, Thomas
  Suffix	V
  Born	BY 3 Jul 1608	Westmill, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	3 Jul 1608	Westmill, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 4]
  Emigration	Abt 1636	Hertfordshire, England   [5]
  	settled first in Charlestown
  Adm_Church	18 Feb 1637/8	Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  	Address: First Parish Church
  Freeman	2 May 1638	Massachusetts Bay Colony   [5]
  Settled	1641	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [5]
  	Thomas Richardson was the youngest of three brothers who with Edward Converse and several others, founded the town of Woburn, Mass., having been chosen by the church in Charlestown to make the settlement. A church was formed there in 1641.
  Adm_Church	14 Aug 1642	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  	Address: First Parish Church
  Died	28 Aug 1651	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Buried	Abt 1 Sep 1651	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [3]
  	Address: Park Street Burial Ground
  Probate	22 Sep 1651	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [6]
  	Inventory case 19160; 22nd of 7th mo 1651
  _AMTID	302051506019:1030:155362986
  _COLOR	3
  _UID	85C7F38AFA9E436F841D259C09821597AC8C
  Person ID	I8849	Tree_1
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	Richardson, Thomas IV,   b. Abt 1565, Standon, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. Abt 5 Jan 1633, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Duxford, Catharine,   b. Abt 1570, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. Abt 7 Mar 1631, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Married	24 Aug 1590	Westmill, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 7, 8]
  	Address: St. Mary the Virgin
  	He of Standon and she of West mill
  Family ID	F3950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	[--?--] Richardson, Mary,   b. 1612–1615, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 19 May 1670, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 55 years)
  Married	BY 21 Feb 1635/6	Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [2]
  	Address: Charleston/Woburn
  	Snow-Estes says they married in England
  Children	1. Richardson, Mary,   b. 1638, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Richardson, Sarah,   b. BY 22 Nov 1640, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 15 Aug 1694, Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 53 years)   3. Richardson, Isaac,   b. 14 May 1643, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Richardson, Thomas VI,   b. 4 Oct 1645, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 1721, Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 75 years)   5. Richardson, Ruth,   b. 14 Apr 1647, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 1699, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age < 51 years)   6. Richardson, Phebe,   b. 24 Jan 1649, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Richardson, Nathaniel,   b. 2 Jan 1650/1, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 4 Dec 1719, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2022
  Family ID	F2849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - BY 3 Jul 1608 - Westmill, Hertfordshire, England Baptism - 3 Jul 1608 - Westmill, Hertfordshire, England Emigration - Abt 1636 - Hertfordshire, England Married - Address: Charleston/Woburn - BY 21 Feb 1635/6 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Adm_Church - Address: First Parish Church - 18 Feb 1637/8 - Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Freeman - 2 May 1638 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Settled - 1641 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Adm_Church - Address: First Parish Church - 14 Aug 1642 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Died - 28 Aug 1651 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Buried - Address: Park Street Burial Ground - Abt 1 Sep 1651 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate - 22 Sep 1651 - Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Snow-Estes Ancestry, V1:286-7 In May, 1640, the town of Charlestown petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of her territory. The petition was granted, and additions made to her territory of two miles square, soon after increased to four miles square. On the 15th day of May, Ezekiel Richardson, Edward Johnson, Edward Convers, and some others were sent to explore this grant and to determine its bounds. The original design was to make a village within the bounds of Charlestown and dependent on it. But as early as the 5th of November, 1640, the church of Charlestown chose seven men, Edward Convers, Edward Johnson, Ezekiel Richardson, John Mousall, Thomas Graves, Samuel Richardson, and Thomas Richardson, as commissioners or agents, for the erection of a new church and town, upon the land thus granted, to be entirely distinct and separate from Charlestown. A beginning was made in the erection of houses—log houses, doubtless— during the year 1641, at and near the centre of the new town, which at its incorporation, in September, 1642, received the name of WOBURN, from Woburn, in Herefordshire, England, where was an ancient abbey, founded in 1145, and where was the palatial residence of the noble family of Russells, dukes of Bedford, long known as the friends of liberty. The church in Woburn was solemnly constituted Aug. 14, 1642, O.S., answering to Aug. 24, N.S. Seven persons were embodied as a church state, viz.: John Mousall, Edward Convers, Edward Johnson, William Learned, Ezekiel Richardson, Samuel Richardson, and Thomas Richardson. These persons stood forth, one by one, and declared their religious faith and Christian experience. These seven men were the "seven pillars;" they were the nucleus of the new church, and theirs was the responsible duty of deciding what other members should be admitted. I t was also their duty to lay out the new town to be formed in connection with this church, and make all needful arrangements for this purpose. The fact that the three Richardson brothers were appointed on so important a service is conclusive proof of their general excellence of character and of the confidence reposed in their wisdom and integrity. The first settlers of Woburn, 1642, could not have exceeded thirty heads of families. Thirty-two men subscribed the "Town Orders," agreed on by the commissioners at their first meeting, in Charlestown, for the settlement of Woburn, Dec. 18, 1640; but several more became inhabitants of the new town. Ezekiel Richardson and his two brothers, after their removal to Woburn, lived near each other, on the same street, which, from its having been their residence and that of many of their posterity, has been known from time immemorial as "Richardson's Row." It was in the present town of Winchester, a little north and east of the village; the "Row" now constituting a part of Washington Street. He himself lived half a mile north of the present village of Winchester; a locality, until Apr. 30, 1850, included in the town of Woburn. The descendants of these three brothers, bearing the name of RICHARDSON, long have been and still are more numerous than persons of any other name in Woburn, and among them have been found some of the most useful and valued members of the church and citizens of the place.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1548] Snowe-Estes Ancestry, viewed; 21 July 2021; I:284; ancestry of Thomas Richardson (b 1608). [S1775] New England Marriages to 1700 (Torrey), 2:1273; marriage of Thomas Richardson & Mary [LNU]; 22 July 2021. [S1907] Richardson, Thomas (1608-1651) - FindaGrave #59943874, 1608–1651; 59943874. [S2094] Hertsfordshire - Some Early Emigrants (NEHGR 57:297 - 19030, 16 February 2022; pg. 299. [S2093] Morris, Ephraim & Pamela - their Ancestors & Descendants (1894), pg. 52. [S424] Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, 22 July 2021; File 19160. [S734] England Marriages, 1538-1973 (FS), 22 July 2021; 991327:16787098. [S2094] Hertsfordshire - Some Early Emigrants (NEHGR 57:297 - 19030, 16 February 2022; pg. 298.